What was I thinking? I was supposed to post to The Fight Like A Girl Club over a week ago. As a power team writer, I write on topics related to the disease I fight, ankylosing spondylitis, and post once a month. Unfortunately I’m fighting AS which means that I …
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Visitors Welcome! Well…It Depends.
During my journey with cancer, visitors who appeared at my bedside delivered an array of reactions–no two were the same. It taught me a lot about what to tell someone going through cancer and how to treat them. What I really didn’t want was to be treated differently because of …
Read More »Are you a Cancer Previvor?
A previvor by definition is a word used describe those who have a higher risk for cancer due to close family history or due to certain genetic mutations (like the BRCA1 or BRCA2), but do not have a cancer diagnosis. According the non-profit organization FORCE (Facing Our Risk of Cancer) …
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